> i just didn't use GIMP's proprietary file format that GIMP developers want to push. This is completely misrepresenting and misunderstanding what this file fo

> i just didn't use GIMP's proprietary file format that GIMP developers want to push. This is completely misrepresenting and misunderstanding what this file format even is. You might as well complain that saved games are not compatible between Age of Empires and Pokemon. If existing formats don't support the complexity that software like GIMP requires to save a given state, then it has to fall back to a custom format. The only alternative that comes to mind is using .psd, which clearly wouldn't solve your problem since it is actually a proprietary format. As for this "agenda" to push some proprietary format, this excerpt from Wikipedia might clear things up: "A collaborative effort between the developers of GIMP and Krita is underway to design a raster file format called OpenRaster, modelled on the OpenDocument format, for use in both applications in a future version."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_(file_format) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_(file_format)